Air-motor



A. ALBERICO.

AIR MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED Aus.13, 1919.

1,358,669, Patented Nov. 9,1920.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTONIO ALBERICO, OF J'OLIET, ILLINOIS.

AIR-MOTOR.

Application filed August 13, 1919.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONIO ALBERIoo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Joliet, county of lVill, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Air-Motors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an air motor designed to make use of the momentum or inertia of free air in contra-distinction to the expansive force of confined air.

The invention has for an object to provide a novel and simple construction whereby power may be derived by the relative advancing movement of the body on which the motor is mounted, with respect to the air.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Figure l of the drawings is a side view of an air motor constructed according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on the line X-X of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the motor.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan.

As here shown my improved motor comprises a revolving wheel A having a series of bucket vanes B spaced around the periphery thereof.

The wheel A is covered by a casing C which is cut off at the bottom to leave the lower vanes exposed, this casing expanding at one side into the downwardly opening funnel D which may be stiffened by a central web E. The funnel D merges into the.

casing C at the top of the latter and a small air intake opening F is formed in the latter at this point.

Wheel A may be fixed on the end of the shaft G and it is my intention to assemble the motors in pairs, one at each end of the shaft, a clutch of usual construction being provided to connect the shaft to the part to be driven.

The wall of casing C on the opposite side thereof to funnel D is discontinued for a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Serial 1T0. 317,264.

short distance above the bottom of the casing leaving an opening leading to the vanes B, a pair of flaring plates H directing the air into this opening. Air outlets I may be provided in the side walls of the casing, and these outlets may be provided with suitable caps.

As will be noted the mouth of the funnel inclines downwardly and rearwardly and is of considerably greater width at its mouth than the wheel A and vanes B, the funnel decreasing in size as it curves around the wheel away from its mouth. With this arrangement the air enters the funnel and is compressed onto the vanes and strikes the latter with greater impactive force by reason of such compression.

Claims.

1. An air motor of the type described comprising a wheel, a casing extending circumferentially around the greater part of said wheel, said casing being cut away on one side to leave an opening whose edges are in the general line of movement of the air, buckets projecting radially beyond the general plane of the edges of said opening, the portion of said casing extending away from the rear side of the opening being in the form of a flaring funnel whose mouth forms a continuation of said opening and whose inner side is formed by the periphery of the said wheel.

2. An air motor of the type described comprising a wheel, a casing extending circumferentially around the greater part of said wheel, said casing being cut away on one side to leave an opening whose edges are in the general line of movement of the air, buckets projecting radially beyond the general plane of the edges of said opening, the portion of said casing extending away from the rear side of the opening being in the form of a flaring funnel whose mouth forms a continuation of said opening and whose inner side is formed by the periphery of the said wheel and a pair of flaring plates leading to the opposite side of said opening.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

ANTONIO ALBERICO. 

